John Butler Yeats collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, correspondence, portraits and portrait sketches, and pictorial works.
Names: Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922 (Creator); Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Correspondent); Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 (Correspondent); Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Correspondent); Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949 (Correspondent); Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918 (Correspondent); O'Neill, Maire, 1887-1952 (Correspondent); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1897 - 1921 (Inferred)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Yeats, JoB
Topics: Moore, George, 1852-1933; Quinn, John, 1870-1924; Russell, George William, 1867-1935; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Genres: Correspondence
Notes: Biographical/historical: John Butler Yeats was an Irish portrait painter and the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of a manuscript, correspondence, portraits and portrait sketches, and pictorial works. The manuscript consists of an invitation to a dinner in New York on March 29, [1916]. The correspondence consists of letters from Yeats, dating from [1897] to 1921, to Padraic Colum, Lord Edward Dunsany, Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Douglas Hyde, Gustav Kobbé, W. B. Yeats, and others, as well as a letter, dated 1914, from John Quinn to Maire O'Neill, relating to Yeats, and a letter from Lady Gregory to Yeats, dated [Jan. 18, 1906]. The portraits include sketches and pen-and-ink drawings of George Moore, John Quinn, George William Russell, and William Butler Yeats.; Content: Card catalog available.
Physical Description: Extent: 122 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Yeats, JoB; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15966049; MSS Unit ID: 19282; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8ff548f0-1efa-013f-0180-0242ac110002

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